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they are based in afghanistan, but their work is focused on pakistan. up at the border, we were stopped from filming them... but a former commander agreed to talk if his identity was protected. >> who were those guys? >> smith: the wikileaks war logs, released in 2010, contain references to the cia's private army in khost. they fire mortars at taliban and al qaeda targets in pakistan. with the help of drones, "shadow coverage," they ambush and kill insurgent fighters crossing the border. >> smith: pakistan is supposed to be an ally in the war against the taliban and al qaeda, but u.s. soldiers fighting along the border complain that pakistan's army supports the militants. >> from my time on the border, we experienced on a regular basis pakistani military complicity with the insurgency. it could be turning a blind eye as the insurgents launch rockets at our bases. it could be allowing passage, you know, kind of right under their noses. it could be even aiding and working with the insurgents to know what times to cross the border, telling them when our pa
they are based in afghanistan, but their work is focused on pakistan. up at the border, we were stopped from filming them... but a former commander agreed to talk if his identity was protected. >> who were those guys? >> smith: the wikileaks war logs, released in 2010, contain references to the cia's private army in khost. they fire mortars at taliban and al qaeda targets in pakistan. with the help of drones, "shadow coverage," they ambush and kill insurgent fighters...
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there was none for afghanistan. >> narrator: rumsfeld scrambled, but cofer black was way ahead of him. in less than a week, the president initiated greystone. >> mclaughlin: we all assembled in the cabinet room, and the president lays down about 12 decisions, just like that, machine-gun fashion. >> interviewer: what did he say? >> mclaughlin: well, of course, the thing that stands out in my memory, because it hit me vividly, was... he said, "i want cia in there first." >> narrator: that day, president bush signed a key document, a finding authorizing cofer black and the cia to wage a covert international war. >> radsan: it was a very comprehensive finding. it was generally worded. it was: "go out and get the bad guys; disrupt them, kill them, interrogate them." this was an overarching authorization of the cia. >> rizzo: i had never ever seen a presidential authorization as far reaching and as aggressive in scope. it was... it was simply extraordinary. >> townsend: in a post-9/11 world, we weren't going to be so prissy. we were going to work and do what we needed to do. no matter how d
there was none for afghanistan. >> narrator: rumsfeld scrambled, but cofer black was way ahead of him. in less than a week, the president initiated greystone. >> mclaughlin: we all assembled in the cabinet room, and the president lays down about 12 decisions, just like that, machine-gun fashion. >> interviewer: what did he say? >> mclaughlin: well, of course, the thing that stands out in my memory, because it hit me vividly, was... he said, "i want cia in there...
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>> roger, control. >> let me give you an example in southern afghanistan. so if you look at where the majority of the population is... >> narrator: the military leadership says there is no contradiction between protecting the afghan population and kill/capture operations. >> we've undertaken, you know, roughly 3,000 operations in the last 90 days, so this is an unprecedented op tempo here in afghanistan in these types of operations. >> narrator: according to major general john nicholson, kill/capture missions create space in which conventional troops can improve security. >> by maintaining the initiative against the enemy, that enables the majority of the force to focus on securing the population, so the two are essential and complementary. if we did not have this level of operational tempo with special operating forces, then it would be tougher for our conventional forces to secure the population. ( shouting and gunfire ) >> narrator: conventional forces across afghanistan are fighting hard to secure the major population centers. ( gunfire ) >> see the wom
>> roger, control. >> let me give you an example in southern afghanistan. so if you look at where the majority of the population is... >> narrator: the military leadership says there is no contradiction between protecting the afghan population and kill/capture operations. >> we've undertaken, you know, roughly 3,000 operations in the last 90 days, so this is an unprecedented op tempo here in afghanistan in these types of operations. >> narrator: according to major...
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. >> narrator: gaith met fighters who he believed were from somalia, afghanistan, iraq, and saudi arabia. but he wasn't allowed to interview them on camera. >> the whole day was very strange. we passed army checkpoints, we drove through the desert, we were met by the fighters, and now we are in a city. it's a real city, it's an actual city. people are living in the city, people are having their normal life, as we're going to see. yet at the same time, this is al qaeda. this is not even, you know, taliban and al qaeda. this is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and they just control a whole city. >> narrator: gaith was shown these pictures, filmed by al qaeda. local people had been summoned to the town's theater. it showed al qaeda fighters attacking a major army base near jaar. almost 200 yemeni soldiers were reported killed, and dozens of prisoners were believed to be held in jaar. jalal al marqashi, the top al qaeda commander in this region, was shown visiting the prisoners. >> it's unconceivable for a small unit of 60 fighters to achieve this kind of victory. i really wanted to see, d
. >> narrator: gaith met fighters who he believed were from somalia, afghanistan, iraq, and saudi arabia. but he wasn't allowed to interview them on camera. >> the whole day was very strange. we passed army checkpoints, we drove through the desert, we were met by the fighters, and now we are in a city. it's a real city, it's an actual city. people are living in the city, people are having their normal life, as we're going to see. yet at the same time, this is al qaeda. this is not...
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. >> and from afghanistan, martin smith finds the man who knows the secrets. >> did you encourage the americans to increase their use of drones? >> i encouraged america to "bomb pakistan." >> these three stories tonight on frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank yo and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. major funding for frontline's expanded broadst sean is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> narrator: it was just after midnight, september 9, 2001. >> a trooper was doing what a trooper would do. saw a speeder. pulled over the speeder. ( siren wailing ) >> narrator: the maryland state trooper ran
. >> and from afghanistan, martin smith finds the man who knows the secrets. >> did you encourage the americans to increase their use of drones? >> i encouraged america to "bomb pakistan." >> these three stories tonight on frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank yo and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur...
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way things are lining up in afghanistan." and he said, "i just... i sense a shift, and i think things are going to happen." and i said, "when?" he said, "i don't know, but soon." and that wasust his sense of things. we left about 2:30. john gave me a big bear hug and said, "i'll see you tomorrow." and john went home, and that was the last i saw of him. >> it appears that the... there is more and more fire and smoke enveloping the very top of the building. >> oh, my god. >> that looks like a second plane has just hit... >> i saw the second plane, and of course by then there's no doubt what the issue is. and i call again and i don't get through, and i leave a message. i knew he should have been there by then. and frankly, i'm just concerned,
way things are lining up in afghanistan." and he said, "i just... i sense a shift, and i think things are going to happen." and i said, "when?" he said, "i don't know, but soon." and that wasust his sense of things. we left about 2:30. john gave me a big bear hug and said, "i'll see you tomorrow." and john went home, and that was the last i saw of him. >> it appears that the... there is more and more fire and smoke enveloping the very top of...
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but by the time of the surge, improved supply lines meant that more than 20,000 us troops in afghanistan and iraq were taking anti-depressants and sleeping pills. these drugs enable the army to keep soldiers with post-traumatic stress on the battlefield. >> ptsd is a very difficult disorder to treat. i can't change the days that occurred, the events that occurred. i can't go back and affect the memories until they start talking about them. what i use medications for to treat very specific side effects. i don't want somebody in a helplessness mode in a combat environment. i want to make sure i don't have, you know, someone with suicidal thoughts where everyone is armed. i want to be able to manage that effectively. if i can treat it there and optimize their recovery, that's valuable. >> narrator: but some civilian psychiatrists are concerned that these could be inappropriate drugs for a war zone. dr. joseph glenmullen has studied kenny eastridge's prescriptions from his time in iraq. >> all of these antidepressants now carry, in recent years, a black box warning. the black box warning for
but by the time of the surge, improved supply lines meant that more than 20,000 us troops in afghanistan and iraq were taking anti-depressants and sleeping pills. these drugs enable the army to keep soldiers with post-traumatic stress on the battlefield. >> ptsd is a very difficult disorder to treat. i can't change the days that occurred, the events that occurred. i can't go back and affect the memories until they start talking about them. what i use medications for to treat very specific...
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you can fly in afghanistan one day, and the very next day, you're flying in iraq. though they're physically located here, they need to think in their mind that they are in theater, because that's where the business end of that cockpit is. you're no longer sitting at creech air force base. get in that mindset. when you step into the gcs, you are... >> like to confirm deadly, we have a single individual on the roof, on the north corner of that four-sided building. >> dretzin: the planes' cameras can surveil their targets from up to nine miles overhead. >> and looks like they may be employing weapons at this time. one time, we had intel that there was a bad guy riding around on a motorcycle, if you will. and he was just riding around, and he stopped at two or three different playgrounds, and he's playing soccer with all these kids, you know. and he's just... he's living his life, he's doing his normal, everyday life. and thenyou know, sure eugh, at the end of that ride, though, we found him at a meeting of bad people. and it ended up resulting in a strike. so you end
you can fly in afghanistan one day, and the very next day, you're flying in iraq. though they're physically located here, they need to think in their mind that they are in theater, because that's where the business end of that cockpit is. you're no longer sitting at creech air force base. get in that mindset. when you step into the gcs, you are... >> like to confirm deadly, we have a single individual on the roof, on the north corner of that four-sided building. >> dretzin: the...
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this period, manning either uploaded or handed off two large data files, the war logs from iraq and afghanistan. >> we don't really know whether manning approached wikileaks or people around wikileaks, or if it was the other way around. but my theory is, whichever way it is, there's an intermediary. there's a group of people in the middle, probably these people in cambridge, massachusetts, who are kind of former computer hackers, many of whom are supporters and are kind of in this loose network of people who support wikileaks. so somewhere in this mix, you have manning with access to this information; you've got wikileaks and julian assange with the desire to get it; and you've got a helpful intermediary. and somewhere in between here, there's a transfer i believe takes place. >> smith: the question of how assange acquired the documents is important. was assange a passive recipient, or was he more involved? >> i think assange is savvy enough that he would have tried to avoid, at all costs, any direct contact with... with bradley manning, understanding that could later lead to a much easier pros
this period, manning either uploaded or handed off two large data files, the war logs from iraq and afghanistan. >> we don't really know whether manning approached wikileaks or people around wikileaks, or if it was the other way around. but my theory is, whichever way it is, there's an intermediary. there's a group of people in the middle, probably these people in cambridge, massachusetts, who are kind of former computer hackers, many of whom are supporters and are kind of in this loose...
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which was that they had been given hundreds of thousands of documents, dispatches from the field in afghanistan and iraq. there was at that point an intimation that there might be more things to come, and was i interested? and, clearly, i was interested. >> smith: over the next four weeks, the times, der spiegel, and guardian reporters pored through the war logs looking for news. there was no one startling headline, but there was lots of rich detail. >> it was a remarkable insight. it was an unvarnished, rich portrait of the daily conduct of two wars. i would argue that you came away with stuff you didn't get in the pentagon papers, because of the... the rawness of the information, the sheer day to day, mundane life of war. >> smith: in their coverage, the papers decided that they would black out the names of any civilian informants working for the us military. but assange had a different idea for his wikileaks' web site. one evening, just days before publication, they confronted him over dinner. >> julian, whose project was to publish the entire data set, was very reluctant to delete those nam
which was that they had been given hundreds of thousands of documents, dispatches from the field in afghanistan and iraq. there was at that point an intimation that there might be more things to come, and was i interested? and, clearly, i was interested. >> smith: over the next four weeks, the times, der spiegel, and guardian reporters pored through the war logs looking for news. there was no one startling headline, but there was lots of rich detail. >> it was a remarkable insight....
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and nato forces in afghanistan, but with increased fees. pakistan closed those lines in november after u.s. air strikes that killed two dozen soldiers along the afghan border. the new guidelines also call for an end to attacks by u.s. drone aircraft. death penalty opponents marked a victory today in connecticut. the state house voted last night to abolish capital punishment in all future cases. the state senate had already approved the repeal. the bill now heads to the desk of governor daniel malloy, who says he will sign it into law. connecticut would become the 17th u.s. state to end the punishment. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: next tonight, a cease- fire begins in syria. we start our coverage with a report from neil connery of independent television news. >> reporter: the syrian army has not gone away, but since dawn, its guns have largely been silent. these images are said to show the battered city of derah, tanks dug in, but in the absence of gunfire, early signs of people returning to the str
and nato forces in afghanistan, but with increased fees. pakistan closed those lines in november after u.s. air strikes that killed two dozen soldiers along the afghan border. the new guidelines also call for an end to attacks by u.s. drone aircraft. death penalty opponents marked a victory today in connecticut. the state house voted last night to abolish capital punishment in all future cases. the state senate had already approved the repeal. the bill now heads to the desk of governor daniel...
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. >> next timfrontline, in the opium fields of afghanistan, a crop is destroyed, and so is a family. frontline tells the tragic story of afghan farmers forced to trade their daughters to drug traffickers to save their own lives. >> explore more about this story and the people you have met frontline's website. including the video of the verrinos' moving eulogy for their baby. >> our son knew the happiness of acceptance and unconditional love. >> ...and read more of the interview about their child and his short life, and other readings to explore about the intimate realities of death and grief, the meaning and rituals of a funeral, americans' attitudes toward death, and what it means to be an undertaker. watch the program again online and join the discussion. share your own experiences with handling a loved one's funeral, or planning your own. follfrontline on facebook and twitter, or tell us what you think at pbs.org. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is pro
. >> next timfrontline, in the opium fields of afghanistan, a crop is destroyed, and so is a family. frontline tells the tragic story of afghan farmers forced to trade their daughters to drug traffickers to save their own lives. >> explore more about this story and the people you have met frontline's website. including the video of the verrinos' moving eulogy for their baby. >> our son knew the happiness of acceptance and unconditional love. >> ...and read more of the...
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but he found that opportunities were better elsewhere; he got a job with a private contractor in afghanistan. >> moyers: what does it say to you that he can make more money employed by a military contractor in afghanistan than he can make here at home in milwaukee? >> it says something. >> it's sad. >> it says you gotta run out of this country to go somewhere to make some more money. that's crazy. and we're supposed to be the richest country? that ain't... that don't sound too good, bill. >> the chair recognizes... >> thank you, mr. president. if i could speak to this, as the lead sponsor... >> moyers: we went to milwaukee's city hall to find the family's one college graduate. keith stanley earns about $45,000 a year as an assistant to the common council president, alderman willie hines. >> he's been on staff now about a year and a half or two or so, and he's highly respected. he's a man of integrity. >> moyers: hines's district is in milwaukee's central city, near where keith grew up. >> neil, how's everything going with you? >> moyers: despite government and private efforts to bring jobs b
but he found that opportunities were better elsewhere; he got a job with a private contractor in afghanistan. >> moyers: what does it say to you that he can make more money employed by a military contractor in afghanistan than he can make here at home in milwaukee? >> it says something. >> it's sad. >> it says you gotta run out of this country to go somewhere to make some more money. that's crazy. and we're supposed to be the richest country? that ain't... that don't...
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." >> narrator: there were the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the pursuiof aqaed and above all, a huge political challenge. >> we can finally bring the change we need to washington... we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction... >> narrator: during the campaign, he had promised americans he would fix the partisanship that plagued and divided washington. >> there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. >> it's the inauguration day of the nation's first african- american president... >> this is the biggest inaugural of all time in a country that likes the word big... >> the first couple to arrive at the neighborhood ball... >> narrator: on the very night barack obama was inaugurated, a group of republicans quietly gathered to develop plans for taking on the new president. >> a meeting, a dinner, took place in a famous steak house in downtn washington, with newt gingrich as sort of the mc, as it were. >> the thing i found disturbing this week... >> narrator: at the gathering of gop luminaries: top conservative co
." >> narrator: there were the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the pursuiof aqaed and above all, a huge political challenge. >> we can finally bring the change we need to washington... we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction... >> narrator: during the campaign, he had promised americans he would fix the partisanship that plagued and divided washington. >> there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states...
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have we forgotten the mujahadeen in afghanistan? whether you're the president of the united states or the prime minister of britain, if you engage in such covert activities and crimes are committed, yes, haul them before an international court. >> reporter: but limited justice it'll be argued is better than no justice at all, and in that regard, a little history was made here today. >> brown: for more, we turn to eric stover, director of the human rights center at the university of california at berkeley. he has participated in several criminal investigations of international leaders. so, eric stover, howignificant is ts conviconndhy? >> oh, it's very significant. it's historical for several reasons. first, as you pointed out earlier in the tape, this is the first conviction since nuremberg just after world warle two of a former chief of state who is held culpable for crimes against humanity. second-- and i think this is really most important-- the 11-year war ended in 2002 in sierra leone and the fog of war lifted people came to re
have we forgotten the mujahadeen in afghanistan? whether you're the president of the united states or the prime minister of britain, if you engage in such covert activities and crimes are committed, yes, haul them before an international court. >> reporter: but limited justice it'll be argued is better than no justice at all, and in that regard, a little history was made here today. >> brown: for more, we turn to eric stover, director of the human rights center at the university of...
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. >> next time, a frontline ç rare footage of insurgents allied with al qaeda inside afghanistan. afghan journalist najibullah quraishi goes behind enemy lines to reveal a startling portrait of the growing al qaeda presence. "fighting for al qaeda." next time on frontline. >> this investigation continues online with coroner minyard's office in the news again. what the system looks like in your state. >> i'm not anti-coroner; i'm pro competency. >> experts discuss how they would fix the problem. >> can you do it with the nuclear approach? >> and basic facts of death explained. and there's much more on fronline's website. watch more than a 100 full programs; explore interactive timelines and follow ongoing frontline investigations. then, tell us what you think at pbs.org. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david l
. >> next time, a frontline ç rare footage of insurgents allied with al qaeda inside afghanistan. afghan journalist najibullah quraishi goes behind enemy lines to reveal a startling portrait of the growing al qaeda presence. "fighting for al qaeda." next time on frontline. >> this investigation continues online with coroner minyard's office in the news again. what the system looks like in your state. >> i'm not anti-coroner; i'm pro competency. >> experts...
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. >> smith: covering the wars in afghanistan and iraq, you spend a lot of time with young soldiers, barely out of high school, who are asked to do the toughest work the country asks of them. there are so many of them now fighting two wars, back to back. >> you guys have fun. ( gunfire ) >> smith: for most, this job is not so much a career as it is a tour of duty. they just hope to survive, make it back home, and begin the next chapter in their lives. back on base, they prepare for a transition to civilian life. a generous gi bill with billions of dollars for education is designed to ease their way. here, soldiers take college courses from a variety of schools, earning credits towards a hoped-for degree. >> i do want to get my bachelors before i get out. that's one of my long-term goals. >> right now, i'm working on my associates degree with ctc, and then i'm going to transfer to umuc and get my four-year. >> i'm going to transfer over to strayer. >> smith: "strayer." that caught my attention. it's one of those for-profit, mostly online colleges. were there other sools that you were looking
. >> smith: covering the wars in afghanistan and iraq, you spend a lot of time with young soldiers, barely out of high school, who are asked to do the toughest work the country asks of them. there are so many of them now fighting two wars, back to back. >> you guys have fun. ( gunfire ) >> smith: for most, this job is not so much a career as it is a tour of duty. they just hope to survive, make it back home, and begin the next chapter in their lives. back on base, they prepare...
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. >> over a thousand left limbs in iraq and afghanistan. but congssmarehbg voted against additional critical funding for prosthetic... >> jon tester votes to raise taxes... >> ryssdal: it's not hard to find political free speech in montana today. you see it all the time in what seems to be an endless run of political attack ads. >> and voted to raise the debt limit six times. >> ryssdal: the amount of money being spent is amazing. >> it could be $20 million on broadcast television. how do you like them apples? in the state of montana. >> ryssdal: so long as i know where the apples are coming from, i'm all right. that's the question. i don't know where the apples are coming from. >> right. we don't know where the apples are coming from and that's the problem here. >> ryssdal: david parker is a professor at montana state university. he's been tracking the tv ad spending in this senate race. >> it is incredibly difficult to actually figure out where this money is coming into this state and then let alone to figure actually who is actually givi
. >> over a thousand left limbs in iraq and afghanistan. but congssmarehbg voted against additional critical funding for prosthetic... >> jon tester votes to raise taxes... >> ryssdal: it's not hard to find political free speech in montana today. you see it all the time in what seems to be an endless run of political attack ads. >> and voted to raise the debt limit six times. >> ryssdal: the amount of money being spent is amazing. >> it could be $20 million...
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>> 124 people have been killed so far this year-- about the number of americans killed in iraq and afghanistan. >> sadly, in another sign of the times, members of ceasefire were also at today's memorial service, hoping to stop any thoughts of retaliation for greg's murder. >> twelve, 13-year-olds are walking around with bulletproof vests on up under their clothes. >> give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation. >> all right, let's close up. everybody that's in the meeting, this is serious now, okay? we're in a crisis mode, and we need people to step up to this table and go over and beyond. guys are getting killed for just anything. have there been any conflicts mediated on the front end? from last week to this week? >> two guys was arguing. one guy threatened to blow the other guy's wig back. i got him to calm down, tell him he didn't shoot you, he was just talking. we stopped that one on the front end. >> i have the dirty dozen at the table. we've always had outreach workers, but the violence was n
>> 124 people have been killed so far this year-- about the number of americans killed in iraq and afghanistan. >> sadly, in another sign of the times, members of ceasefire were also at today's memorial service, hoping to stop any thoughts of retaliation for greg's murder. >> twelve, 13-year-olds are walking around with bulletproof vests on up under their clothes. >> give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against...